hough both the characters and story are purely fiction, this tale is based on an incident that actually happened in the summer of 1995 in a small town in the San Joaquin Valley. During that summer, a Hispanic couple repeatedly saw the ghost of a little girl at the foot of their bed. It was later discovered that, in 1961, a child who had lived in the house had been abducted by a man and his pregnant wife, raped and brutally murdered.

The apparition appearing to the young woman warned that her unborn baby would die if she didn't move out of the house. The couple, unable to relocate, remained in the house and the baby did die, strangled by its own umbilical cord.

During World War II, the spot had been a Nazi prisoner of war camp.